Bone grafts and bone substitutes : basic science and clinical applications /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nather, Aziz
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, [2005]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Structure of bone
  • Fracture healing
  • An introduction to biomechanics of bone
  • Autogenous bone grafting in orthopaedic surgery
  • Vascularised pedicular bone grafts
  • Vascularized autograft : basic sciences and clinical applications
  • Healing of large, non-vascularized, cortical autologous bone transplants : an experimental study in adult cats
  • Role of bone allografts in orthopaedic surgery
  • Setting up a tissue bank
  • Quality control issues in tissue banking
  • Is the irradiation dose of 25 kGy enough to sterilise tissue grafts?
  • Diploma course training of tissue bank operators : 7 years of experience
  • Healing of large diaphyseal deep-frozen cortical allografts
  • Bone allotransplantation : future directions
  • The human genome
  • Genomics in orthopaedics
  • Gene therapy and new bone formation
  • Stem cell technology and its commercial potential
  • Setting up a tissue engineering laboratory
  • Culturing mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow
  • Bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells : potential for tissue regeneration
  • Scaffolds in bone tissue engineering
  • Carriers of mesenchymal cells
  • The role of bone morphogenic proteins in bone incorporation
  • Platelet-rich plasma in orthopaedic surgery : basic science and clinical applications
  • Applications of autogenous platelet rich plasma (PRP) gel to enhance bone formation
  • The need for new materials for use in bone in man
  • Role of ceramics as bone graft substitutes
  • Enhancement of the bioactivity of orthopaedic biomaterials : role of growth factors, ion substitution and implant architecture
  • Fabrication of granular hydroxyapatite
  • Role of corals and coralline ceramics in orthopaedic surgery
  • Biomedical use of corals and coralline hydroxyapatite in hard tissue replacement
  • Coral as bone graft substitute
  • Rapid prototyping in orthopaedics : principles and applications
  • Custom mega prosthesis for bone reconstruction in orthopaedic surgery